Chad Gable Explains Why He Created The El Grande Americano Gimmick
Chad Gable says El Grande Americano started as his idea.
In the past year, El Grande Americano has become a major name in AAA. Originally, Chad Gable played this character, but after he suffered an injury, a certain wrestler took over the gimmick and made it their own.
Gable eventually returned as El Grande Americano and faced the new El Grande Americano in a Mask vs. Mask match where he lost. He has since tried to make amends with several luchadors he previously disrespected.
During a recent interview with WittyWhittier, Chad Gable said that the El Grande Americano gimmick was his idea.
“Funny how this business works, wrestling itself, you never know what’s going to work out, what’s not going to work out, what’s going to surprise us, and what people are going to really latch on to. I think that’s been the story of the last year and a half or two years. The El Grande Americano thing started just as me wanting to put more into a story that I was already involved with these luchadors, and I wanted to take it to another level.
This was my idea of donning this mask and my way to try to elevate this story, not knowing where it was going to take me career-wise. You never really can predict stuff like that. Then on top of that, the injuries. For those that don’t know, I had a shoulder surgery, rotator cuff was torn, bicep tendon, all kinds of stuff that I had to have repaired, that forced me to go away.
Again, it’s circumstantial. Who knows where we’d be right now if all of these elements had not just turned out the way they did. Somebody else took over the El Grande Americano gimmick, and they were doing it while I was hurt. I come back. Now we’ve got a built-in story there. It is like you said, a bit of an odyssey and a journey we had to go through. I would call it valleys and peaks and lows and things like that to get here. But now, where I’m at, it’s almost like, man, I couldn’t have written it any better than it turned out.”
Gable is currently scheduled to defend his Intercontinental Championship against Rey Mysterio on the August 17 WWE Raw. The full lineup for this event is available here.
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